"School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores," 2011 (with Jishnu Das, James Habyarimana, Pramila Krishnan, Karthik Muralidharan, Venkatesh Sundararaman), 2011.NBER Working Papers 16830, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

"Social Protection, Efficiency and Growth", 2011, Centre for the Study of African Economies WPS 2011-17, Oxford University.

"Beyond Fatalism - An empirical exploration of self-efficacy and aspirations failure in Ethiopia," (with Tanguy Bernard and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse), 2011,. Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series 2011-03, University of Oxford.

"Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children", (with Catherine Porter), Centre for the Study of African Economies, Working Paper Series 2010-39, University of Oxford.

"Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia,"　(with Bet Caeyers), (forthcoming 2011), Economic Development and Cultural Change.

"Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey" (with Kathleen Beegle and Joachim De Weerdt), Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2011, 93: 1010-1033.

"Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia,"　(with L.Christiaensen), (2011) Journal of Development Economics, 96(2): 159-173

"Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence" (with Roxana Gutierrez-Romero), World Development, forthcoming 2011

"Information Flows and Social Externalities in a Tanzanian Banana Growing Village", (with Katleen Van den Broeck), (2011) Journal of Development Studies, 47(2): 231-25.

"Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia", (2011), (with Daniel Ayalew and Madhur Gautam), Agricultural Economics 42 (1). 75-86.

"Orphanhood and human capital destruction : is there persistence into adulthood?", 2010, (with Kathleen Beegle and Joachim De Weerdt), Demography, Vol.47, No.1, February 2010, pp. 163-180.

"Poverty and the Psychosocial Competencies of Children: Evidence from the Young Lives Sample in Four Developing Countries", 2009, (with P. Krishnan), Children, Youth and Environments 19(2), 138-163.